Steve Jobs Quotes
Steven Paul Jobs was born on the 24th of February, 1955 in San Francisco, California, United States. He was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Steve Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. He was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003. Steve Jobs died at the age of 56 on the 5th of October, 2011 in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Below, you will find a collection of popular Steve Jobs quotes and sayings.
80 Steve Jobs Quotes About Life, Work & Success
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.― Steve Jobs Quote
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.― Steve Jobs Quote
I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better.― Steve Jobs Quote
The most precious thing that we all have with us is time.― Steve Jobs Quote
I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.― Steve Jobs Quote
That’s why we started Apple, we said you know, we have absolutely nothing to lose. I was 20 years old at the time, Woz was 24-25, so we have nothing to lose. We have no families, no children, no houses. Woz had an old car. I had a Volkswagen van, I mean, all we were going to lose is our cars and the shirts off our back.― Steve Jobs Quote
The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works.― Steve Jobs Quote
One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.― Steve Jobs Quote
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.― Steve Jobs Quote
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. ― Steve Jobs Quote
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle. ― Steve Jobs Quote
The only thing you have in your life is time. If you invest that time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can’t possibly lose.― Steve Jobs Quote
I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance.― Steve Jobs Quote
I’ve always felt that death is the greatest invention of life. I’m sure that life evolved without death at first and found that without death, life didn’t work very well because it didn’t make room for the young.― Steve Jobs Quote
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing and it’s totally true. And the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard. And you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, you’re going to give up.― Steve Jobs Quote
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don’t blame them. It’s really tough and it consumes your life.― Steve Jobs Quote
I’ve never been so tired in my life. I’d come home at about ten o’clock at night and flop straight into bed, then haul myself out at six the next morning and take a shower and go to work. My wife deserves all the credit for keeping me at it. She supported me and kept the family together with a husband in absentia.― Steve Jobs Quote
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I’m only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I’ve got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.― Steve Jobs Quote
When I was 12 or 13, I wanted to build something and I needed some parts, so I picked up the phone and called Bill Hewlett – he was listed in the Palo Alto phone book. He answered the phone and he was real nice. He chatted with me for, like, 20 minutes. He didn’t know me at all, but he ended up giving me some parts and he got me a job that summer working at Hewlett-Packard on the line, assembling frequency counters. Assembling may be too strong. I was putting in screws. It didn’t matter; I was in heaven.― Steve Jobs Quote
Ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s ’cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on, but sometimes I think it’s just like an on-off switch. Click and you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on-off switches on Apple devices.― Steve Jobs Quote
I have been trained to think in units of time that are measured in several years. With what I’ve chosen to do with my life, you know, even a small thing takes a few years. To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that’s how I think.― Steve Jobs Quote
The smallest company in the world can look as large as the largest company on the web.― Steve Jobs Quote
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.― Steve Jobs Quote
My dream is that every person in the world will have their own Apple computer. To do that, we’ve got to be a great marketing company.― Steve Jobs Quote
I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.― Steve Jobs Quote
I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.― Steve Jobs Quote
Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.― Steve Jobs Quote
You’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about, otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there.― Steve Jobs Quote
If you really look at the ones that ended up, you know, being “successful” in the eyes of society and the ones that didn’t, oftentimes, it’s the ones who were successful and loved what they did so they could persevere, you know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn’t love it quit because they’re sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it?― Steve Jobs Quote
Without death, there would be very little progress.― Steve Jobs Quote
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.― Steve Jobs Quote
We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know…― Steve Jobs Quote
Almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.― Steve Jobs Quote
If today were the last of your life, would you do what you were going to do today?― Steve Jobs Quote
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.― Steve Jobs Quote
We were really working fourteen-to-eighteen-hour days, seven days a week. For like, two years, three years. That was our life. But we loved it, we were young, and we could do it.― Steve Jobs Quote
Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.― Steve Jobs Quote
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity.― Steve Jobs Quote
The Lisa people wanted to do something great. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The difference shows.― Steve Jobs Quote
Don’t get hung up on who owns the idea. Pick the best one, and let’s go.― Steve Jobs Quote
You can build your own things that other people can use. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. ― Steve Jobs Quote
Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.― Steve Jobs Quote
I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. ― Steve Jobs Quote
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.― Steve Jobs Quote
I don’t care about being right. I care about success and doing the right thing. ― Steve Jobs Quote
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves. ― Steve Jobs Quote
In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment – however you define it. ― Steve Jobs Quote
We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. We just want to make great products.― Steve Jobs Quote
Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.― Steve Jobs Quote
We he had everything to gain. And we figured even if we crash and burn, and lose everything, the experience will have been worth ten times the cost.― Steve Jobs Quote
Don’t take it all too seriously. If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.― Steve Jobs Quote
You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.― Steve Jobs Quote
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.― Steve Jobs Quote
I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay.― Steve Jobs Quote
When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader.― Steve Jobs Quote
So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the executive team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.― Steve Jobs Quote
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.― Steve Jobs Quote
I’ve been rejected, but I was still in love.― Steve Jobs Quote
You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going. ― Steve Jobs Quote
I’ve read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can’t do it forever, and you don’t want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.― Steve Jobs Quote
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that’s what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.― Steve Jobs Quote
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences that a year is a lifetime at Apple.― Steve Jobs Quote
You gotta act. And you’ve gotta be willing to fail, you gotta be ready to crash and burn, with people on the phone, with starting a company, with whatever. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.― Steve Jobs Quote
I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery.― Steve Jobs Quote
If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast.― Steve Jobs Quote
I remember many late nights coming out of the Mac building when I would have the most incredibly powerful feelings about my life.― Steve Jobs Quote
I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20.― Steve Jobs Quote
Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new.― Steve Jobs Quote
In business, if I knew earlier what I know now, I’d have probably done some things a lot better than I did, but I also would’ve probably done some other things a lot worse. But so what? It’s more important to be engaged in the present.― Steve Jobs Quote
The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it.― Steve Jobs Quote
I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love.― Steve Jobs Quote
Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.― Steve Jobs Quote
People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.― Steve Jobs Quote
There is a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product.― Steve Jobs Quote
We are very careful about what features we add because we can’t take them away.― Steve Jobs Quote
I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind.― Steve Jobs Quote
The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers.― Steve Jobs Quote
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.― Steve Jobs Quote
The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.― Steve Jobs Quote
You have to believe that the dots will somehow connect in your future.― Steve Jobs Quote